Leonard Baby was born in 1996. As a child he took art lessons in Colorado Springs. He was also forced into conversion therapy by his evangelical Christian parents, and then forbidden from interacting with anyone who wasn’t conservative. “Being an artistic person and a queer person, I always had this real hunger for something outside of that,” he told Interview magazine. “I think visual art is really what pulled me out of the grips of that cult, for lack of a better term.” With art as his refuge, the bed became a central setting in his work, a place full of vulnerability, dreams, and seduction. Baby’s newest exhibition depicts different figures in intimate positions: some post-hookup, some post-nap. For Baby, lying in bed is his “factory setting.” Here at Villa Carlotta, he invites the viewer under the covers. —Maggie Turner